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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 China built a 1.22M square metre train station on top of a mountain for $7.8B in just 38 months.

The roof alone weighed 16,500 tonnes.

They assembled it on flat ground, then hydraulically lifted the entire thing 57 metres into the air.

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

RIP Michael Lyster ❤️

Loved this 2018 RTÉ Tribute to him on his final day hosting The Sunday Game.

He fronted the panel so well for 35 years.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

I’ve been contacted by THREE Labour Party whistleblowers, inc. a former frontbencher, + been passed a sensitive Excel spreadsheet by a senior politician in Scotland.

The evidence is clear: Mandelson + McSweeney built a covert network of Labour MPs.

Here’s what they’re hiding:🧵

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

In 2004, Steve Carell walked into his Anchorman audition and immediately broke the format. He treated it like a full character showcase rather than a read, which is why the tape is still talked about as one of the great comedy auditions.

[Off The Ball @offtheball]

"I do believe it's definitely deserved"

Kieran Hughes reacts to @Scotstowngaa 's Ulster Senior Club Football Championship win over Kilcoo in Armagh

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Powerful earthquake unleashes tsunami in Japan , injuring at least 23 people.

Read more 🔽
https://t.co/nr0ZZ09BJV

[Tommy Rooney @TomasORuanaidh]

Ain’t nobody like JBM.

Gut-wrenching defeat for the Barrs, but well worth listening to how Jimmy Barry Murphy handles it post-match.

a club with serious pedigree, they’ll be back - also have a Camogie All-Ireland final to look forward to next week too 👏

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

US Marine said it 15 years ago!

It was never the 7th of october.

[Ecofact @EcofactEcology]

The River Corrib and Galway weir in Galway city. This weir was installed in the 1950s as part of the Corrib–Clare arterial drainage scheme. It replaced an earlier weir built in the mid-1800s as part of the first flood scheme. This is the site of a major salmon fishery owned and operated by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI).

Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) is a Qualifying Interest of the Lough Corrib SAC. Yet the salmon fisheries operated by IFI in this catchment have never been subject to Appropriate Assessment.

Under the Habitats Directive, any plan or project capable of significantly affecting a Natura 2000 site must undergo AA and can only be screened out if it is shown beyond reasonable scientific doubt that significant effects are not possible. The annual salmon regulations and byelaws that set catch limits on rivers such as the Corrib are clearly plans or projects under Article 6(3), yet no assessment has ever been carried out to demonstrate that this exploitation is consistent with the site’s Conservation Objectives.

IFI uses a risk-based model that sets quotas so there is a 75% chance of meeting conservation targets. In other words, there is a one-in-four chance that the targets will not be met in any given year. EU law requires a far higher standard of certainty – there should be no reasonable scientific doubt.

By screening out the annual salmon regulations without site-specific assessments, IFI is not complying with the Habitats Directive. Protecting Natura 2000 rivers requires a precautionary approach and independent conservation oversight, not fisheries management practices that accept a 25% risk of failure.

The current approach also ignores other impacts, such as catch-and-release angling on already stressed salmon populations, disturbance to other wildlife, biosecurity risks, and barriers created by fish counting weirs.

IFI has introduced mitigation measures such as closing fisheries when water temperatures reach 20°C to protect salmon. However, under the Habitats Directive, projects affecting a Natura 2000 river cannot be screened out on the basis of mitigation. Reliance on mitigation is only permissible at the Appropriate Assessment stage, where effects on Qualifying Interests are assessed.

Lough Corrib SAC is also designated for Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), another Qualifying Interest of this Natura 2000 site. However, this species is now on the verge of extinction in the river. Lamprey migration is almost completely blocked by the weir.

Managing a Natura 2000 river is not about providing fish for anglers. Angling is legally recognised as a pressure that can undermine the restoration of salmon populations. Inland Fisheries Ireland is an agency whose very name reflects a focus on exploitation rather than conservation. This dual role creates an inherent conflict: angling is treated as a priority, yet within a Natura 2000 site it is legally a pressure that threatens the recovery of salmon populations.

[Matt Hackenberg @CoachHackGO]

Beautiful basketball

As if the ghost flare into the stagger wasn't enough... the action just keeps coming

[Buckets Basketball @BucketsBball_]

Auburn | Iverson Curl - Skip DHO

Animate your basketball playbook here: https://t.co/22SX50Rc2f

[Dundalk Coláiste Chú Chulainn @ColChuChulainn]

Wishing the very best of luck to our U16 B Boys Basketball team, who will compete in the All Ireland Schools Cup Final tomorrow at the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght. This is a tremendous achievement, & the entire school community wish the team & their coaches all the best.

[Red Wolf @RedWolf_ie]

🚨📽️Hezbollah & The Lebanese Resistance📽️🚨

Check out the trailer for our new documentary by director, @sean_murray1

Coming Soon.

[Josh Williams @CoachJWilliams]

@tonywmiller Our zone offense...
https://t.co/N9hyzziBn1

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

a reporter asks Chomsky if he believes Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. He responds: No, the actual terrorists are the US and Israel, and the only reason Hezbollah is labelled as such by the Western media and political class is because they dare resist their genocidal mania

[murdock @AaronMurray93]

Tim McCarty is the 🐐 of all commentators

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates including a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

From @KenSilverstein1:
https://t.co/0bwmkJy7VK

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

What is your favorite Inside the NBA moment of all-time?

I’ll start. 😂

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

🇳🇴Norway Broadcasting Corporation’s
Yama Wolasmal, interviews Israeli spokesperson, David Mencer. This should be taught in all journalism schools. I spoke at the Norwegian Journalism Institute last year @Pressenshus in Oslo & was so impressed with the rigour of their work.